The exam has come and gone! I took FAR today, and then came home, relaxed, went to dance class, and did my best not to think about it too much!

I have no idea how I did. The questions didn’t seem to get any harder (a bad sign) but they also didn’t seem to get any easier (a good sign?).

I raced through the multiple choice section to make sure I’d have enough time for the simulations, which ended up not taking very long at all, and so I left the exam with over an hour on the timer. That may or may not be a bad thing?

It seemed like most of the multiple choice were not questions requiring computation, which always takes up time, so I think that’s why I managed to get through it quicker.

On one of my simulation tabs, they seem to have left off half the information required to do the problem. I spent a long time re-reading the information and trying to find what I was missing, since I had all that extra time, but no such luck. Hopefully that’s one of the pre-test questions!

Well, I just looked up how long it’ll take to get my scores, and it seems I could get them in as little as a few weeks, or as long as a few months! So in the meantime, I’ll forget about FAR for awhile and start studying for REG! But that can wait until tomorrow.

In half an hour I’ll be on my way to the Prometrics testing center to take the FAR section of the CPA exam! (Leaving a little earlier than I need to, just in case, and because it’s raining. People drive slowly here when it rains.)

Trying to keep my list of things to remember to a manageable size:

1. Take several forms of ID to the testing center
2. Read the last sentence first of multiple choice questions
3. Do the written communication first on simulations
4. Take extra time on the first testlet, because it determines how difficult my questions will be on the second testlet.
5. Eat breakfast!

Plus, I have to remember how to do all that accounting stuff they’re going to ask me about .